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Re: (erielack) Alco Farewell / Economy Changes



Rich P.
 
You are correct. Age has gotten the best of my memory.  LOL!
 
Rick
 
 
In a message dated 12/13/2010 2:33:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com writes:


Rick,

I believe that was the Royal Blue the B&O  ran.  The Banner Blue was a 
Wabash 
train if I remember correctly.  

Rich P




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From:  "RJFlei_@_aol.com" <RJFlei@aol.com>
To:  erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
Sent: Mon, December 13, 2010 12:09:51  PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Alco Farewell / Economy  Changes


Lance,

I think the CNJ was at one time under B&O  control. The  B&O used the CNJ 
to 
reach Jersey City and ran "The  Banner Blue" on the CNJ,  if I remember 
correctly.

Rick  Fleischer


In a message dated 12/13/2010 1:36:04 P.M. Eastern  Standard Time,  
intercityrailpal_@_netscape.net  writes:



As a former RF&P shareholder. It was somewhat   like Conrail.  That CSX 
took the RAIL assets it wanted. Most of  the  stock was owned by a Virginia 
retirement investment firm. So the  transaction  was done on their terms. 
The 
company continued just like  Reading International  and Katy Industries 
today.  
Stock ticker  codes RDI and KATY  today.  I didnt' follow what happened to  
RF&P, M&STL or CNJ.  Perhaps  taken over or merged up  with a non rail 
company. The EL is not.  It was  gone completely  in 1992. I welcome more 
information, like what happened to the   L&HR and CNJ corporation. I know 
what 
happened 

to the rail  assets.  Lackawanna Lance




- -----Original  Message-----
From:  Montgomery, Edward T  <ETMontgomery_@_fcps.edu>
To: 'EL Mail List'   <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Mon, Dec 13, 2010 11:43   am
Subject: RE: (erielack) Alco Farewell / Economy  Changes


Well,  
A lot of EL ROW might still be around but  if EL had upgraded, I'm sure  
either NS 
r CSX would have their  hands all over the property.  EL  shareholders 
would 
have  
een offered a deal they could not refuse - sort of  like what CSX did  to 
acquire 
ichmond, Fredricksburg 7 Potomac.
Ed   Montgomery

- -----Original Message-----
rom: Tupaczewski, Paul R   (Paul) 
[mailto:paul.tupaczewski_@_alcatel-lucent.com] 
ent: Monday,  December  13, 2010 11:36 AM
o: EL Mail List
ubject: RE: (erielack)  Alco Farewell /  Economy Changes
> I think you made some good  points. The good news in  
Youngstown  is that the air is 25%  cleaner. The bad news is 
that  there are no jobs and the  jobs  that are left pay just a 
little more  than minimum wage. I guess this  is the "New 
Economy" or the "New Normal".  

Rick  Fleischer
Cortland, OH. 

nd since we're an  economy driven now  by foreign imports, today's 
railroads 
are 
rimarily   transporting... containers... of goods from China across the US. 
 
Local  
usiness? What's that?
Going back to the EL, in theory  the EL could have  survived as a primarily 
ntermodal long-hauler. It  was already heading in  that direction before 
CR. 
Not 
o beat the  proverbial dead horse, but had  there been the proper 
"planetary  
lignment of economic factors," there  could still be a vibrant EL  today. 
learances for double-stacks? Not a  problem, considering how  the other 
"big 
oads" today spend government  dollars to improve their  lines.
Ah well, such it is to dream....
- - Paul
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